thinking about how a certain brand of post-theosophist ufo cultist think there are additional, hidden strands to dna that will activate come the appointed moment and bring humanity to a new level of consciousness

post-new age movements are for the most part scams, but the lines along which they develop their doctrines aren't accidental — what they do is make more explicit what is already present in the secular religion

if they were actually aberrant, they wouldn't spread so readily, and their doctrines wouldn't remain so homogeneous. all the talk about crossing the galactic plane and ascending into christ-consciousness in the fifth light dimension or w/e makes sense because after a fashion, most of us already believe its underpinnings. all the genuinely radical elements of theosophy and new age have been leeched away, and what remains is this sort of a spiritual diet coke — tastes like sugar but has none